The best IT strategies serve the wider organisational strategy. They focus on people, not just technology.
With a clear technology strategy, organisations can wisely invest, use technology as a strategic driver and deliver a positive return on investment.
From assessing the state of your technology, to helping you have a single source of truth or ongoing strategic advice, we’ll make sure your technology is enabling you to deliver on your mission.
It’s great having a strategic partner we can trust. They’re easy to talk to, extremely responsive, helpful and diligent.
Dean Mills
Head of Technology, Anglicare Victoria
We’re for organisations that improve the world
We specialise in not-for-profit, social enterprise and government
We are purposeful about who we work with.
Enabling our clients allows us to create exponential impact.
Ethical & Independent Strategy Advisors
STRATEGY PROJECTS
Strategic Planning
We provide support across a range of strategic projects that typically fall into three areas:
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An assessment of an organisations IT health or assisting in preparing for rapid change (i.e. COVID impact on hybrid working).
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A strategy focusing on key capabilities that have broad impact; like selecting a primary application such as a case management or finance system.
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Detailed assessment of all key ISO standards across organisational strategic pillars.
The difference in our approach is our focus on people, engaging with staff and understanding customers to ensure recommendations meet their needs.
ONGOING SUPPORT
Independent Strategic Advisory
Often organisations see a disconnect between strategy and how a service is actually delivered.
Our independent advisors support your Board, executive team and IT team implement and govern your technology strategy.
From vendor management to sitting on your ICT steering committee or executive/board reporting to program oversight we can provide a fresh and experienced perspective.
PROVEN METHODOLOGIES
Standards, Compliance & Obligations
Depending on each client's need, we assess against one or more standards including ISO, SOX, PCI DSS, HIPAA, COBIT, ITIL, TOGAF or frameworks like the ISO 31000:2018 risk assessment framework.
We are really happy we engaged Dog and Bone to assist us with our IT strategy.
Georgie Harman
CEO, Beyond Blue
TACTICAL ASSESSMENT
Lean Tech Environment Assessment
You might be looking to get full visibility of your tech environment before defining a new strategy.
We’ll assess the current state of your systems, capabilities and risks and work out what you can to do right now, where you can improve and identify high priorities in the next three months.
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Benchmarking tools
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Maturity and risk frameworks
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Map providers and technology to goals
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Delivered in a comprehensive report
UNIFIED COMMUNICATION
Enabling a
Hybrid Workplace
The reality for most workplaces is now a hybrid of office and remote working. It's important to maintain connection, collaboration and the quality of your services.
Many organisations find themselves using different technologies and platforms to communicate and collaborate. With the technologies available now you can move everything from your phone system, instant messaging and document collaboration into one platform so it's more efficient and easier to use.
STRATEGY PROJECTS
Information Management
A clear Information Management Strategy can help you control how you store information, who can see it and protect sensitive data, empowering your team to easily retrieve and save information whilst keeping your organisation secure.
Our Information Management strategy includes:
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System selection and architecture
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Implementation and migration process
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Transition resourcing and timelines
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Change management, adoption and support
It was great having Dog & Bone’s strategic guidance and support in building our IT strategy.
Steve Coleman
CEO, RSPCA NSW
Case studies
IT Strategy
RSPCA NSW
RSPCA is an animal welfare organisation with 500+ staff.
Dog and Bone conducted a comprehensive organisational wide IT Strategic plan. We established their current state, worked with diverse teams (from the executive, to animal welfare) to establish the future state, including governance and risk management.
We completed an IT Strategy and a Strategic Roadmap that outlined improvements over a 5-year period in addition to conducting a workshop with the full executive team on the strategy roll out.The diverse involvement of the team ensured the project had shared ownership.
Strategy capabilities
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Strategy health check
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Current state analysis
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Future state requirements
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Strategic roadmap
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Governance framework
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Information management planning and support
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Program oversight
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Thought leadership
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Vendor management
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ICT steering committee support
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Executive/board reporting
I love that we’re able to work with and support organisations who make a real difference in people’s lives and help those organisations make the most of their technology.
Matt Walton
CEO, Dog & Bone
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